Rumor: Steam to Allow Game Sharing, coming soon?

GuestPass version 2?

well that's cool. What if the borrower must pay $$/hour then % of that $$$ is sent to the owner of the borrowed game. That might be a cool idea

This... is... AWESOME!!!

Then we can see more leechers add us !

And saying: Please,Please,Please ...

This is awesome, if it actually happens of course...!

that's pretty neat, like a try before you buy :)

Company of heroes 2 is described in my wishlist as "[NOT USED] old CoH2" what could this mean?

This might be a great idea if they do it... But I hope there won't be any requested fee more than the cost of the game... AND.. I wish to let him play my games the time he likes or till I decide to play it myself. 1 hour a week is nothing much different from a demo... If my friend wants a demo doesn't need to play my games, don't you think?

I highly doubt this would be possible, maybe for indies but what AAA company will want this?

Logically, does not make business sense at all.

If I remember correctly, there was a statement a few years back that Steam was looking into this possibility. This could easily drive up sales as games without demos could be "demo'd" and players could get more of a feel for the game than most demos provide. It's also one step closer to total license and "ownership" transfer needed to fulfill most international laws that would allow resale of digital goods. And to top it off, it'd be one more nail in the XBone's coffin. While I'm not really anticipating anything will actually come of this, it would be nice to see and would be a step in the right direction for digital distribution as a whole.

Payday sort-of already has this. If you got the Wolf Pack DLC but one of your friends doesn't, he can still join in a game that you host and play the content of the Wolf Pack.

Not bad. We'll see how it goes :P

People already do this, albeit in an illegal way. I've got a few friends who are avid fans of Football manager. They recently bought the new game on one account, then proceeded to login and verify that account on each of their computers followed by going into offline mode (after installing the game).

Unless they implement some serious limitations to that idea, person A would borrow the game from person B, finish the game and be done with it. He would never have to purchase the game. Though it may eliminate piracy.

Sure, I have no problem to lend my games to "friends", as long as the lending fee gets added to my account :3

Maybe sharing between same computer users.

It would be nice. Sharing a game for 30 minutes, or an hour, would be enough for the other person to decide if they wanted to buy the game or not. I doubt that they'll let people who didn't buy it, to borrow it and play it for hours. Imagine the amount of skyrims that had a ton of hours played, yet half of those who played didn't buy the game. It wouldn't be fair.

Also, I hope they do it with all games. This way, it would be a step closer for me to stop pirating games.

That would be shit.

To quote myself from elsewhere:

I get far too many people adding me to beg me to buy them games or give them games, TF2 items, Dota 2 items, cards, etc, from my inventory as it is. I can't imagine the flood of beggars that would come with this feature.

Not to mention all of the very likely negative consequences to game design (i.e. more free to plays, more multiplayer experiences, fewer single player experiences) and the very real possibility of reduced discount levels.

This is a feature I never wanted and I hope I will never get.

Uh steam for the Steambox maybe, being tested on us pc gamers, OH GABE.

We'd have even more people attempting to giveaway library games on here!

What is love?
Baby don't beg me,
Don't beg me,
No more...

I totally approve of this. After all, you can borrow your physical Disks to someone else, and all these online registrations and whatnot only serve to stop you from borrowing what is YOURS to someone else.

Based Valve did it :3